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Credit: Alex Yelich/University of Arizona In 2016, farmers worldwide planted more than 240 million acres (98 million hectares) of genetically...

Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Ever put an unripe avocado into a bag with a banana to make it guacamole-ready?...

Credit: IGDB The striking capacity for plants to adapt their growth and development to an ever-changing environment is mediated by...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 10, 2017--The "first food system" in the U.S., which calls...

While the policy debate surrounding crude oil transportation costs has emphasized accidents and spills, a new study by Carnegie Mellon...

An international team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues...

A new study reveals that patients with breast cancer who received more aggressive treatments were more likely to experience disruptions...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) As more breast cancer patients are choosing to remove both breasts, researchers examine the...

Credit: Will (Yangxiaolu) Cao, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have turned bacteria into the builders of...

Credit: John A. Downing Looks can be deceiving. Look at a hundred lakes in the agricultural heartland of the United...

PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 9, 2017) -- Researchers at The Wistar Institute have uncovered new aspects of the three-dimensional organization of...

Key Takeaway: In 2008 New York City introduced a rule mandating calorie postings for chain restaurants that was intended to...

A neuroimaging study of two monkeys published in JNeurosci identifies a brain network that tracks the location of an object...

Credit: Copyright D. Johnson/VIMS. Just in time for Halloween, a new study reveals that pumpkin-colored zombies may be running rampant...

Credit: Courtesy of Ai et al. Neurons that enable honeybees to sense the waggle dance -- a form of symbolic...

"How many different cell types are there in a human body? And how do these differences develop? Nobody really knows,"...

Credit: Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Removal of a regulatory gene called LSD1 in adult mice induces changes in gene...

Credit: Ning Qian/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of...

Credit: NIAID, Flickr, CC BY Researchers successfully built a gene drive to reduce female fertility in the mosquito that spreads...

Credit: D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) A Brazilian study, published in Scientific Reports on October 09, 2017, has...